I've heard that registering a domain name for a very long time, say 5 to 10+ years, can help with your search rank.
This seems at least plausible to me, since a fly-by-night, massive domain name farm ...

Is there any risk associated with purchasing a domain with a TLD for a politically unstable or authoritarian country?
ex, if I purchase a .ly domain and there is a dramatic political change in Libya, ...

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I want to buy a domain and make a website that is fully secured with DNSSEC.
I want to make sure that only the one right SSL certificate could be validated by the browsers and all ...

What's the general process to transfer domain ownership from one organization (or individual) to another? Is there a good reference on doing this?
Note: I'm not referring to moving a domain from one ...

It seems that information on the topic is a bit sparse in the wild. How do you go about back ordering a domain?
If you do find a service that will do it for you, does the current owner of the domain ...

I'm currently using godaddy for all of my company domains, and I'm very unsatisfied with their service, specially with their site, so we are trying to migrate those domains to another provider. The ...

All the popular registrars I know of don't seem to offer this domain, and after Google'ing around for a while I came to an index of registrars for this TLD, but they all seem to be Russian.
Is there ...

What is the best way to handle domain squatters? I know this topic has been discussed before, but I haven't found anything that was addressing my specific case.
The situation: I am creating a website ...

While browsing the ICANN list of accredited registrars, https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html, I've noticed that a couple companies are registered multiple times and multiple ...

I want to register a domain called webmasters.com. Can I enter admin@webmasters.com as the contact email when filing for the domain name? The forseeable problem is that the email address has not yet ...

There is a .io domain name that has expired and I would like to purchase it. I understand with top level generic domains such as .com .net and .org they have several phases before they actually drop. ...

If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do ...

I want to allow users on my site to register a domain without having to go to a domain registar's site. They would not need to manage the domain ... it will simply be linked to their site. (Exactly ...

I did a WHOIS search for a domain name that I want. I found some info about the registrant of the domain name, and while no useful direct contact info was given, there was enough there for me to do ...

Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain?
It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts ...

I am new to buying domain names and know they can be transferred from one registrar to another. Are there any limitations? Some registrars describe how to transfer domains from specific registrars, ...

Though I've been a web developer for a fair amount of time, I am going for the first time to buy a few domain names. I have looked into the domains I'm going to buy and know that they're available, ...

Several times in the past I've bought a domain through Google Apps, and every year Google automatically renews the domain for $10.
Somehow when I did this today, I ended up additionally being signed ...

Most of the major registrars have a 3 character minimum for second-level domains. However, I know that it's possible to register them. (a.cc, o.co)
You can ever register single unicode domain names ...

I have a problem with one domain and I have no idea how to go about it.
I am volunteering for a small charity in Sheffield (UK), more specifically I am redoing their website. A while ago (few years) ...

I have recently signed up for a knownhost vps package. My account has been set up on their end. They want me to create ns1.outsourcingnepal.com and ns2.outsourcingnepal.com in my registar and point to ...